Steven Kay QC

Issuing Red Notices or diffusions to pursue political opponents has become a particularly favourite tool and a means to shakedown successful businesspeople who attempt to resist state empowered blackmailers. lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

More than 11,000 Red Notices were issued in 2020 compared to about 1,200 in 2000. Out of the approximately 66,370 valid Red Notices, only 7,669 are public. Who are the high-volume users of the system? Read here: lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

Interpol has tightened its oversight using more stringent safeguards, open-source materials and distinguishing between terrorism, political dissent and criminality. But when states go after lesser-known targets, it might have reached the limits of what it can do. @TheLawSociety

The deployment of opaque Red Notices through Interpol is not just favoured by the obvious nations. Smaller states, such as Venezuela, Romania, and Slovakia, also use #Interpol as a means of singling out opponents and capturing assets. @TheLawSociety lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

Human rights law may be the leverage that democratic countries can use to reduce the abuse of #Interpol - by placing conditions on the organisation’s funding and introducing more parliamentary oversight of its work. lawgazette.co.uk/practice-point…

An interesting read here from @lindsaysfreeman & @vazquezllorente in @opiniojuris about the growing use of digital use of technologies in armed conflicts and the opportunities and challenges they post to the @IntlCrimCourt: opiniojuris.org/2021/10/12/how…

Many congratulations to @9bedfordrow’s @SeanBSullivan who has been appointed as a Fee-Paid Judge of the Employment Tribunal. Sean will sit for 30 days per year allowing him to continue to develop his successful criminal practice. 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-team/barri…

Chambers & Partners Rankings 2022. It is with great pleasure that we can announce that 9 Bedford Row has had 8 QCs and 14 juniors listed in the Chambers and Partners 2022 rankings. Members of Chambers were ranked in four practice areas:

A Specialist Fraud Division and HMRC 5-year investigation into a £34m alleged international money laundering operation collapsed this month at Snaresbrook Crown Court, after legal arguments led by @9bedfordrow’s @MiahZacharias. Read more here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views… #Legal

This should be an interesting discussion. Is it time for a reset of the Africa-ICC relationship? Join @asilorg @NurembergAcadem @ctrilpa #icc roundtable on 19 October. bit.ly/3lu92Gv

.@9bedfordrow’s @LenPn17 is featured in this month’s @CounselMagazine. He speaks about his journey to the Bar, the courage and persistence needed to develop new practice areas and his views on leadership and taking ownership of your time and career: bit.ly/3iD7VCz

Last month, @joshhkernn and I provided international legal support to the team @BCLPlaw in a US complaint against Hatem El Beblawi, the former Prime Minister of Egypt. For more details on the case, please read here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views… #InternationalLaw #ICL

Last month we were pleased to welcome @TheJoeyKwong as a tenant at @9bedfordrow. Joey was called to the Bar in 2005 and has a busy criminal practice for both prosecution and defence across a broad spectrum of crime. You can read more about his work here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views…

Earlier this month my colleagues @dreabecker, @joshhkernn and I released an Interim Report on the armed conflict between #Armenia and #Azerbaijan. You can find the report here: 9bedfordrow.co.uk/our-news-views…

.@9bedfordrow’s @kjosutherland has published an article with @FDalessandra from @ELAC_Oxford about the role of mobile technology in documenting international crimes. You can find it here: academic.oup.com/jicj/issue/19/1 #ICL #JICJ

In June, executives from Nexa, the French tech company, were indicted for allegedly aiding and abetting torture in Libya and Egypt. Is this yet another example of activist-inspired litigation to disrupt commerce? intpolicydigest.org/the-principle-…

@dovjacobs says that it is unavoidable that politics will seep into international justice –whether at the ICC or in universal jurisdiction cases. Learn more from our April 2021 webinar for @9BRi: 9bri.com/big-picture-se…

The alleged misuse of Israeli tracking software Pegasus by autocratic regimes has prompted calls for action amidst allegations of corporate complicity in human rights abuses. Read my op-ed about the limits of complicity in international criminal law here: intpolicydigest.org/the-principle-…

Dossier evidence is creating and reinforcing narratives in international criminal law, says @MANewton84, in our April 2021 @9BRi webinar. He thinks that judges must look past that. See more here: 9bri.com/big-picture-se…

The general requirement for aiding and abetting in international criminal law is that there needs to be an awareness that crimes are committed, and a conscious choice to contribute. Hear from @marina_aksenov on complicity here: 9bri.com/big-picture-se…